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About This Book [Table of Contents] Chapter 2 Queries: Selecting Data from
a Table

Transact-SQL User's Guide

[-] Chapter 1 SQL Building Blocks

Chapter 1

SQL Building Blocks

[-] SQL in Adaptive Server
Queries, data modification, and commands
Tables, columns, and rows
The relational operations
[+] Compiled objects
[-] Naming conventions
SQL data characters
SQL language characters
[+] Identifiers
[-] Expressions in Adaptive Server
[+] Arithmetic and character expressions
[+] Relational and logical expressions
[-] Transact-SQL extensions
The compute clause
Control-of-flow language
Stored procedures
Extended stored procedures
Triggers
Defaults and rules
Error handling and set options
Additional Adaptive Server extensions to SQL
[-] Compliance to ANSI standards
Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) flagger
Chained transactions and isolation levels
[+] Identifiers
SQL standard-style comments
Right truncation of character strings
Permissions required for update and delete statements
Arithmetic errors
Synonymous keywords
Treatment of nulls
[-] Adaptive Server login accounts
Group membership
Role membership
Getting information about your Adaptive Server account
Changing your password
[+] Understanding remote logins
[-] How to use Transact-SQL with the isql utility
Default databases
Using network-based security services with isql
Logging out of isql
[-] Using the pubs2 and pubs3 sample databases
What is in the sample databases?


About This Book [Table of Contents] SQL in Adaptive Server